Toward Shabbat: Ki Tetze
Who are the vulnerable in our community who need to be surrounded with care and love? You know who they are—the sick, the elderly, the ...
Monthly Archives:August 2020
Toward Shabbat: Shoftim
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- By Peter Geffen
After these many months of communal and personal isolation, we will soon greet a new Jewish year. These weeks before the High Holy Days are ...
Find Your Waze to the Light: Our High Holy Days Journey
Today is Rosh Hodesh Elul—the beginning of the month before the High Holy Days. So, as we do every year, our community embarks, individually and collectively, ...
High Holy Days Mahzorim and BJ Volunteer Opportunities
Learn about acquiring High Holy Days mahzorim (prayer books) and volunteering with BJ during the High Holy Days season.
Toward Shabbat: Re’eh
By this time next week, we will have begun the month of Elul that leads us into Rosh Hashanah. There are many ways for us ...
Homelessness in our Community
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- By Rabbi Roly Matalon, Rabbi Felicia Sol, Rabbi Rebecca Weintraub, Rabbi Shuli Passow and Larissa Wohl
Over the past few weeks, a controversy has erupted on the Upper West Side regarding the temporary use of local hotels to shelter men experiencing ...
Can a Shul Zoom the Holidays Without Losing Its Soul?
How Manhattan’s B’nai Jeshurun is managing its own high expectations in the era of Covid-19.
Toward Shabbat: Ekev
On Tisha Be’Av, it is customary to read from the Book of Lamentations...This week, as I read about my people’s past, my mind began to ...